June 7, 2010 – Los Angeles, CA – In addition to the release of new software and main gaming platforms at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) there were numerous suppliers of gaming accessories to enhance the game play experience. These accessories are split into two categories – passive accessories and active accessories. The passive parts…
June 7, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—We talked with BulkyPix cofounder Vincent Dondaine about their products and the directions for short-run games. The company is a spin-out from Vivendi on-line. They started by releasing games on iOS and are now moving to develop more Android and console productions. The branding strategy is to place…
June 7, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—We talked with Owen Tverty and Brian Bruning about Unity 3D and the game development platforms they are producing. Unity and their content development and distribution arm, Union, are serving over 150 k developers and over 500 k copies of the tools have been downloaded. Unity assists developers…
June 10, 2011, electronic entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Nintendo celebrated 25 years of the Legend of Zelda franchise and introduced a number of titles and developers. They stated their intention to bring more people into the gaming community by announcing the next generation Wii, to be called Wii U. The complete presentation and announcements are available…
June 10, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Sony invited 6,000 of their closest friends to a party and introduced the lineup for the next buying season and next year. You can find a plethora of videos of their news conference online so this article will just summarize some key highlights and comment upon them. Sony’s…
June 11, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo—amid all of the sounds of games playing and the crowds of people waiting in lines for a chance to try out the latest hardware and software, some trends seem to appear. The world in becoming more connected and game performance seems to have hit a plateau. Everything is now…
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) held in LA in June once again pushed the boundaries of the gaming world. There has been a great deal of discussion about the new Microsoft Kinect motion controller that uses a optical interface to detect the player’s movements and will be available in November 2010….